{"product_id":"biocapital-9780822337089","title":"Biocapital","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn argument that contemporary biotechnologies such as genomics can only be understood in relation to the economic markets within which they emerge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBiocapital\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious book; its conceptual scope has the potential to remake conversation in the human sciences. There is really nothing like the argument and synthesis Kaushik Sunder Rajan provides, which is surprising given how important his topic is.”—Lawrence Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Aging in India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBiocapital\u003c\/i\u003e is excellent. It offers new insight into both late capitalism and the life sciences and also provides material and arguments for rethinking foundational concepts such as ‘valuation’ and ‘exchange.’”—Kim Fortun, author of \u003ci\u003eAdvocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading Kaushik Sunder Rajan’s \u003ci\u003eBiocapital \u003c\/i\u003efills me with the same intellectual and personal excitement I felt reading Marx’s \u003ci\u003eCapital \u003c\/i\u003eand Foucault’s \u003ci\u003eHistory of Sexuality \u003c\/i\u003efor the first time. \u003ci\u003eBiocapital \u003c\/i\u003egives a passionate, thoroughly argued road map to dense and consequential worlds that I already inhabit, but have not known how to describe with the vividness and acumen required. Sunder Rajan integrates and explores in depth what many others only promise; i.e., the coproductions of meanings, values, and bodies in emerging regimes of biocapital. In the course of shaping ethnographic and theoretical inquiry into what he calls ‘lively capital,’ Sunder Rajan gives his readers lively value in every sense.”—Donna Haraway, author of \u003ci\u003eModest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBiocapital\u003c\/i\u003e has more than enough interesting verifiable claims to make it essential reading for anyone studying biotechnology and other contemporary hype-driven fields like nanotechnology and alternative energy.” -- Joseph November * ISIS *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBiocapital\u003c\/i\u003e presents an intriguing analysis of the bioscience industry, especially the capitalist imperatives behind technological developments. . . . Thus for the bioethics audience it presents an engaging study of the biosciences both in relation to the presentation and valuation of ethics and the interdependence of science and markets.” -- Kean Birch * American Journal of Bioethics *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBiocapital\u003c\/i\u003e is a deft, complex, and carefully argued work.” -- Cori Hayden * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Capitalisms and Biotechnologies 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Circulations \u003cbr\u003e 1. Exchange and Value: Contradictions in Market Logic in American and Indian Genome Enterprises 39\u003cbr\u003e 2. Life and Debt: Global and Local Political Ecologies of Biocapital 77\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Articulations \u003cbr\u003e 3. Vision and Hype: The Conjuration of Promissory Biocapitalist Futures 107\u003cbr\u003e 4. Promise and Fetish: Genomic Facts and Personalized Medicine, or Life Is a Business Plan 138\u003cbr\u003e 5. Salvation and Nation: Underlying Belief Structures of Biocapital 182\u003cbr\u003e 6. Entrepeneurs and Start-Ups: The Story of an E-learning Company 234\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Surplus and Symptom 277\u003cbr\u003e Notes 289\u003cbr\u003e References 315\u003cbr\u003e Index 327","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737462452567,"sku":"9780822337089","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337089.jpg?v=1723811221","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biocapital-9780822337089","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}